Cellphone helps ID hit-and-run suspect

12:02 AM,
Jul. 21, 2013

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Written by

Eva Botkin-Kowacki
Gannett Tennessee

Advanced technology helps police crack many cases, but the Tennessee Highway Patrol says simple cellphone photos were the key in helping identify the suspect in a fatal hit-and-run Saturday morning in Rutherford County.

Images on the phone, found lying on the ground near the crash, matched witness descriptions of the man running away from the scene after he drove the wrong way on Interstate 24 and slammed into another car, killing one passenger, police said. The collision also injured the driver and two passengers in the victims' car.